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Chubasco. A chubasco is a violent squall with thunder and lightning, [1] encountered during the rainy season along the Pacific coast of Mexico, Central America, and South America . The word chubasco has its origins in the Portuguese word chuva which means rain. The monsoon [2] storms that regularly pass over the southwestern United States ...
Liga Deportiva Alajuelense ( LDA, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈliɣa ðepoɾˈtiβa alaxweˈlense] ), commonly known as Alajuelense and nicknamed La Liga ( Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈliɣa] ), is a Costa Rican multisport club based in the borough of El Llano, Alajuela, Alajuela province. Although they compete in a number of different sports ...
The UEFA Champions League (previously known as the European Cup, abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single ...
Guatuso has an area of 758.32 km² [4] and a mean elevation of 140 metres. [2] It is a diamond-shaped canton, with the Purgatorio River and the Frío River as the northeast border, the Cucaracha River as a portion of the southeast border, the Cordillera de Guanacaste on the southwest border, and the Rito River and the Mónico River on the ...
Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo ( pronounced [ˈsiŋko ðe ˈmaʝo] in Mexico, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5 to celebrate Mexico 's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, [1] [2] led by General Ignacio Zaragoza. Zaragoza died months after the battle from an illness, and a larger ...
Poás has an area of 73.84 km² [4] and a mean elevation of 1,184 metres. [2] The elongated canton sits among the ridges and valleys on the southern slope of Poás Volcano. The Poás and Poasito rivers form its eastern border, while the Prendes and Tacares rivers limit the canton to the west. Poás Volcano is the canton's northernmost point.
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Alajuela is an important transport hub for the country, connecting the capital city of San José with northwestern Costa Rica. As a part of the Greater Metropolitan Area , most of the inhabitants of Alajuela work in other cities or regions of the Central Valley, and every day receives residents from other locations to work in local factories.